So, you want to be an entrepreneur? It’s all in your mindset and fortunately, it’s a skill you can develop says Alan Manly, OAM, CEO of Universal Business School Sydney. He reveals the six key steps to developing a strong entrepreneurial mindset that will see you reaching your goals. With the world having changed dramatically… Read more »
While entrepreneurial success is never guaranteed, certain mistakes practically guarantee succeeding at failure. Follow these five steps to stack the odds in your favour for your startup, writes Alan Manly OAM, author and CEO of Universal Business School Sydney. Many startup entrepreneurs rely on personal commitment to their great new idea. Some would be so… Read more »
How to determine your hiring needs when starting out.
When it comes to winning over customers and retaining them as fervent outspoken followers, there are a few home truths every entrepreneur must know, writes Alan Manly OAM, author and CEO of Universal Business School Sydney. It is always tempting to solve a business’ problems from the top. After all, it is ingrained in us… Read more »
Take everything you think you know about starting a business and throw it away: these all-too-common misconceptions about what it’s like to start your own business could actually be your undoing! writes Alan Manly. Declaring yourself an entrepreneur will naturally attract comment. Some say it’s a yearning for financial wealth that is your driving force.… Read more »
With everyone trying to stand out from the crowd this Christmas, impressing customers requires more than just cutting prices. Thankfully, the simplest and most cost-effective strategies are often the best, writes Alan Manly. Tradition has it that we all owe the act of giving at Christmas to three magi “from the East” some 2,000 years… Read more »
There is one resource that we are all given equally: time. What you do with yours in business can be the difference between success, failure, or plain old mediocrity, writes Alan Manly author of The Unlikely Entrepreneur. Many business owners decry a lack of resources to grow, chief among them being time. Whilst it is… Read more »
COVID has been a unifying force in that we have all been subjected to change at the same time. But thinking things will ‘go back to normal’ ignores the fact that would involve yet another change, writes business coach and best selling author Alan Manly. Who cannot recall where they were when the first lockdown… Read more »
Anyone who knows an entrepreneur fully appreciates that entrepreneurs are a special breed. Even the unusual sound of the word ‘entrepreneur’ gives an early warning of something different. ‘Entrepreneur’ is one of the purely French words that make up 29% of the English language, writes Alan Manly, CEO of Universal Business School Sydney (UBSS) and… Read more »
It’s an age-old question with new-found relevance in a COVID world: can entrepreneurialism be taught? The answer depends on asking another, more important, question, writes Alan Manly, author of The Unlikely Entrepreneur. Are entrepreneurs born or made? I would suggest that yes, entrepreneurialism can be taught in one way or another. However, the real question… Read more »
Whenever people ask me when the right time is to start a business, there’s a statistic that immediately comes to mind: 80 per cent of start-ups fail. That then begs the question: why? writes business coach Alan Manly. Is it because the founders started their business when economic conditions were unfavourable? Were they too old… Read more »
There are many traps when setting up your own startup dream team. Entrepreneurs want to share the excitement with friends and like-minded people. But mixing friends and business can get messy, writes Alan Manly, author of The Unlikely Entrepreneur. Those like-minded people won’t challenge you. Similar personalities are also often budding entrepreneurs. They want training… Read more »
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